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All programs reside in philosophy departments, unless otherwise specified. Wiki Program Pages contain identical information to front-page listings, also unless otherwise specified.

=== [http://www.bbk.ac.uk/philosophy/ Birkbeck, University of London] ===

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* <strong>Robert Northcott</strong> // website [http://www.bbk.ac.uk/philosophy/our-staff/academics/dr-robert-northcott 1], [http://robertnorthcott.weebly.com/ 2], [http://philpapers.org/profile/2414 PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Philosophy of science, and especially the ‘special sciences’ such as biology and economics; metaphysics, especially the notions of causation and causal explanation; analysis of use of statistical techniques to measure causation, the place of causal explanation in evolutionary theory; role played by formal theory in economics (via website)

=== [http://www.bristol.ac.uk/philosophy/ University of Bristol] ===

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* <strong>Samir Okasha</strong> // [http://www.bristol.ac.uk/school-of-arts/people/samir-okasha/overview.html website], [http://philpapers.org/profile/6691 PhilPapers]
** Specialities: evolutionary theory, levels of selection, population genetics, social evolution, rational choice
** Willing to work with new students? Yes

=== [http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk University of Cambridge (History and Philosophy of Science)] ===

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* <strong>Tim Lewens</strong> // [http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/people/lewens/ website], [http://philpapers.org/s/tim%20lewens PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Philosophy of biology, philosophy of science, philosophical bioethics

=== [http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/sociology/ University of Exeter (Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology)] ===

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* '''John Dupre''' // [http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/sociology/staff/dupre/ website], [http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/media/universityofexeter/collegeofsocialsciencesandinternationalstudies/staffdocuments/duprecv.pdf CV], [http://philpapers.org/profile/44628 PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Particular interests include: biological classification, the relation of technical to everyday biological kinds and to traditional problems of essentialism; adaptationism and optimality; reductionism; indeterministic accounts of causality; evolution and the limitations of evolutionary psychology; and the biological basis of sex and gender. Also worked for several years on issues in the philosophy of economics (via website)
* <strong>Sabina Leonelli</strong> // [http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/sociology/staff/leonelli/ website], [http://philpapers.org/profile/34339 PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Data-Intensive Science and Practices of Data Sharing and Re-Use; Open Science and Open Data; The Regulatory Role and Epistemic Impact of Bioinformatics in Biology and Biomedicine; Bio-Ontologies; History and Epistemic Status of Model Organism Research; History, Philosophy and Sociology of Plant Biology; The Role of Embodied Knowledge and Skills in Scientific Understanding; Abstraction and Modelling Processes in Biology; Distributed Cognition and Division of Scientific Labor; Unity, Disunity and Integration in Science: Early American Pragmatism; Science Policy and the Globalisation and Political Economy of Scientific Research (via website)
* '''Staffan Muller-Wille''' // [http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/sociology/staff/mueller-wille/ website], [http://philpapers.org/s/Staffan%20M%C3%BCller-Wille PhilPapers]
** Specialties: History and philosophy of systematics; history of heredity; history of race and kinship (via website)

=== [http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/philosophy/index.aspx King's College London] ===

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* <strong>Matteo Mameli</strong> // [http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/philosophy/people/staff/academic/mameli/index.aspx website], [http://philpapers.org/profile/10088 PhilPapers]
* <strong>Nick Shea</strong> // [http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/philosophy/people/staff/academic/shea/index.aspx website], [http://philpapers.org/profile/24040 PhilPapers]

=== [http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/ppr/profiles/brian-garvey Lancaster University (Politics, Philosophy and Religion)] ===

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* <strong>Brian Garvey</strong> // [http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/ppr/profiles/brian-garvey website], [http://philpapers.org/s/Brian%20Garvey PhilPapers]

=== [http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/info/20048/philosophy/ University of Leeds] ===

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* <strong>Gregory Radick</strong> // website [http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/profile/20048/441/gregory_radick 1], [http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~phlgmr/ 2], [http://philpapers.org/s/gregory%20radick PhilPapers]

=== [http://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/home.aspx London School of Economics (Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method)] ===

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* <strong>Jonathan Birch</strong> // [http://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/people/birch.aspx website], [http://philpapers.org/profile/8764 PhilPapers]
** Specialities: Natural selection, evolution of social behaviour, evolutionary transitions, human evolution.
** Willing to work with new students? Yes

=== [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts University College London (Science and Technology Studies)] ===

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* <strong>Phyllis Illari</strong> // [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/staff/illari website], [http://philpapers.org/profile/18946 PhilPapers]

=== [http://www.ox.ac.uk/ University of Oxford] ===

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* <strong>Ellen Clarke</strong> // website [http://www.all-souls.ox.ac.uk/people.php?personid=2114 1], , [https://sites.google.com/site/ellenlclarke/ 2], [http://philpapers.org/profile/19904 PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Biological Individuality, Evolutionary Transitions, evolution of cooperation, natural selection, Philosophy of biology, philosophy of science